Skip to main content

FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biomedical Engineering at University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Funding
$8.9M
$8,867,349
Awards
23
FY2026 NIH awards in Biomedical Engineering
Principal investigators
17
16 lead a grant here, 1 co-investigator
Department rank
#13
of 80 · Ranking
  • NIH names only the principal investigators on an award, so this page lists only them. The department is the award's: it is where ScienceDex counts the award, not a list of the department's members.
  • These are the awards in the Biomedical Engineering row of the University of Pennsylvania page.

Leads a grant in this department

16 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.

  1. Zhiliang Cheng

    Leads 3 awards · $1,158,972

    • 5R01AR086381-02Department: NIH department code
      Development of Dual-Action Nanoparticle-Loaded Microparticles for Osteoarthritis Treatment
      $612,052
      award amount
    • 5R01AR080820-04Department: NIH department code
      Treating knee osteoarthritis by sPLA2 inhibitor-loaded micellar nanoparticles
      $458,118
      award amount
    • 3R01AR080820-04S1Department: NIH department code
      Treating knee osteoarthritis by sPLA2 inhibitor-loaded micellar nanoparticles
      $88,802
      award amount
  2. Alex Hughes

    Leads 2 awards · $1,127,501

    • 5R01DK140070-03Department: NIH department code
      Rhythmic pace-making of nephron induction for renal replacement tissues
      $687,126
      award amount
    • 5R35GM133380-08Department: NIH department code
      A developmental engineering toolbox for controlled epithelial morphogenesis
      $440,375
      award amount
  3. Lukasz Bugaj

    Leads 2 awards · $1,061,545

    • 5R01EB037456-02Department: NIH department code
      A molecular toolbox for thermal control of programmed cell death in animals
      $623,597
      award amount
    • 5R35GM138211-07Department: NIH department code
      Harnessing protein clustering to understand, identify, and manipulate cellular systems
      $437,948
      award amount
  4. Michael J Mitchell

    Leads 2 awards · $981,456

    • 1R01HL183505-01A1Department: NIH department code
      mRNA lipid nanoparticles for myocardial infarction
      $632,081
      award amount
    • 5R01HD115877-03Department: NIH department code
      mRNA lipid nanoparticles for pre-eclampsia
      $349,375
      award amount
  5. Yihui Shen

    Leads 2 awards · $852,352

    • 1R21DE036022-01Department: NIH department code
      High-resolution metabolic imaging of HPV+ head and neck tumors ex vivo
      $427,839
      award amount
    • 1R35GM166382-01Department: NIH department code
      Systems biology approach for understanding metabolic support of diversity in proliferating cells
      $424,513
      award amount
  6. Beth A Winkelstein

    Leads 1 award · $632,484

    • 5U24AT011978-05Department: NIH department code
      SPINE-WORK: An inclusive research community to study and improve force-based manipulations for spine pain

      Principal investigators: Beth A Winkelstein (contact PI), Victor H Barocas

      $632,484
      award amount
  7. Ning Jenny Jiang

    Leads 2 awards · $617,136

    • 1R21AG099004-01Department: NIH department code
      Decoding antigen specific T cells in frontotemporal degeneration
      $425,235
      award amount
    • 1R21NS149191-01Department: NIH department code
      Decoding antigen specific CD4+ T cells in TDP-43 proteinopathy
      $191,901
      award amount
  8. Daniel A Hammer

    Leads 1 award · $438,609

    • 1R35GM161553-01Department: NIH department code
      Combining gene editing with traction force microscopy to achieve a comprehensive understanding of mechanotransduction in leukocyte motility
      $438,609
      award amount
  9. Noor Momin

    Leads 1 award · $418,263

    • 1R35GM166468-01Department: NIH department code
      A framework for rational design of therapeutic siRNA conjugates Sponsor
      $418,263
      award amount
  10. Claudia Loebel

    Leads 1 award · $406,250

    • 5R35GM157063-02Department: NIH department code
      Implementing the nascent ECM into the dynamic reciprocity of cell-ECM interactions
      $406,250
      award amount
  11. Pranam Chatterjee

    Leads 1 award · $387,544

    • 5R35GM155282-04Department: NIH department code
      Towards the Design of a Programmable, Isoform-Selective Proteome Editing System
      $387,544
      award amount
  12. David Aaron Issadore

    Leads 1 award · $377,941

    • 5R33CA287135-03Department: NIH department code
      High Throughput Digital Droplet Assays for Ultrasensitive Multimodal (DNA, RNA, and Protein) Diagnostics
      $377,941
      award amount
  13. Andrew Tsourkas

    Leads 1 award · $182,764

    • 5R21CA301137-02Department: NIH department code
      Tumor-site activated T cell redirecting autoantibodies
      $182,764
      award amount
  14. Marshall Scott Padilla

    Leads 1 award · $119,880

    • 1K99DE034831-01A1Department: NIH department code
      An Optimized Lipid Nanoparticle for Tumor Suppressor Restoration and Immunotherapy for Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
      $119,880
      award amount
  15. Julia Noel Fleming

    Leads 1 award · $54,538

    • 1F30DK145200-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing Antigen Presentation and Adaptive Immunity in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
      $54,538
      award amount
  16. Rohan Dipak Patel

    Leads 1 award · $50,114

    • 5F31HG014082-02Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating the interplay between cohesin-mediated loop extrusion and heterochromatin in single cells.
      $50,114
      award amount

Co-investigators

Named as principal investigators on these awards, which someone else leads. They may belong to another department or institution: their own, below, comes from the awards they lead.

Also counted toward University of Pennsylvania in the Biomedical Engineering ranking

Department rankings count awards at these organizations toward University of Pennsylvania. With University of Pennsylvania's own 23 awards (R&D contracts left out), they make up its ranking row: #13, $10,393,771, 26 awards. Each organization's page lists its investigators.